专四专八考试

【单选题】 The Great Wall ofChina
Walls and wall building have played a very important role inChinese culture. These people, from the dim mists of prehistory have been wail-conscious; from the Neolithic period when ramparts of pounded earth were used to theCommunist Revolution, walls were an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages; the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled, and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street, thus giving the feeling of wandering around a huge maze. The name for "city" inChinese (cheng) means wall, and over these walled cities, villages, houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts, whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants. Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall, which was supposed to-run throughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity.
However, it is indeed a common mistake to perceive the Great Wall as a single architectural structure, and it would also be erroneous to assume that it was built during a single dynasty, for the building of the wall spanned the various dynasties, and each of these dynasties somehow contributed to the refurbishing and the construction of a wall, whose foundations had been laid many centuries ago. It was during the fourth and third centuryB、C、that each warring state started building walls to protect their kingdoms, both against one another and against the northern nomads.Especially three of these states: theChin, theChao and the Yen, corresponding respectively to the modem provinces of Shensi, Shansi and Hopei, over and above building walls that surrounded their kingdoms, also laid the foundations on whichChin Shih HuangDi would build his first continuous Great Wall.
The role that the Great Wall played in the growth ofChinese economy was an important one. Throughout the centuries many settlements were established along the new border. The garrison troops were instructed to reclaim wasteland and to plant crops on it, roads and canals were built, to mention just a few of the works carried out.All these undertakings greatly helped to increase the country’s trade and cultural exchanges with many remote areas and also with the southern, central and western parts ofAsia--the formation of the Silk Route.Builders, garrisons, artisans, farmers and peasants left behind a trail of objects, including inscribed tablets, household articles, and written work, which have become extremely valuable archaeological evidence to the study of defence institutions of the Great Wall and the everyday life of these people who lived and died along the wall.
The Great Wall ______.A．helped build trade only insideChina
B．helped build trade inChina and abroad
C．helped build trade only abroad
D．helped build trade only to remote areas

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
本题为推理题。文章第三段提到“All these undertakings greatly helped to increase the country’s trade and cultural exchanges with many remote areas and also with the southern，central and western parts of Asia”，说明长城所起到的作用不仅是单向的，而且是双向的，即对中国与外国互通往来起到很大的作用。另外，一旦出现像only这样表示绝对意义的字眼，务必多加警惕，往往该选项是错误的，可以进行排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>